Penn Museum Scholars Speakers Series: The Forgotten King of La Corona: Dynastic Changes in a Classic Maya Community (Joanne Baron)

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 8:30am

Penn Museum, Classroom 2

Penn Museum Scholars Speakers Series:

"The Forgotten King of La Corona: Dynastic Changes in a Classic Maya Community".

Speaker: Joanne Baron, Ph.D student, University of Pennsylvania

This talk will discuss the tomb of an Early Classic ruler of the site La Corona, and the efforts made by later kings to erase him from the community’s social memory.